About Southern Picnics
Serving Raleigh, Durham, and surrounding areas
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Awards & Recognition
We are always appreciative and honored when our hard work is recognized. Below are some of the ways we’ve been recognized recently. Browse all of our media mentions.
WRAL’s Event Planner of the Year
Southern Picnics has been named WRAL’s Event Planner of the Year for three years in a row, in 2021, 2022, and in 2023, in the WRAL Voters’ Choice Awards.
Raleigh Magazine’s Favorite Things
Southern Picnics was selected as a top curated experience in Raleigh Magazine’s Favorite Things List in 2021.
Raleigh’s Most Inspiring Stories
In August of 2021, Voyage Raleigh Magazine recognized our owner, Angela Byrnes, as one of Raleigh’s most inspiring stories.
About us
A picnic with Southern Picnics is unlike any other. Our goal is to take your breath away as you walk up to your picnic. As you walk towards your picnic, you’ll step back in time. Décor items from the 1950s and early 1960s are sprinkled throughout your picnic. Mixed amongst the vintage items are seasonal floral arrangements that we hand select and arrange to enhance your picnic setup.
In addition to our vintage décor, we also utilize some select modern, upscale décor from companies like One Kings Lane, Spode, Juliska, and Scully & Scully.
We take pride in making sure your picnic is a flawless and memorable experience. From the moment you are greeted, we want your experience to be extraordinary.
Partnering with women & minority-owned local businesses
It’s important for us to support the local Raleigh community. That’s why we partner with women and minority-owned businesses located in Raleigh to curate a picnic experience.
Everything from the charcuterie to the photography is created by another small business in Raleigh.
Meet the owner
My name is Angela and I started Southern Picnics in the Fall of 2020 as a way to enrich and support the Raleigh community.
I fell in love with picnicking in 2018 while visiting Prague. My boyfriend and I picked up a basket of charcuterie from a restaurant and spent hours on the banks for the Vltava River enjoying some bubbles, delicious food, and each other’s company. We stayed there on a grassy patch alongside the river, sprawled out on a plaid blanket, talking and laughing until it turned dark. It’s one of my favorite memories together.
Upon returning home to Raleigh, I bought my first picnic basket so I could recreate that lovely afternoon right here in Raleigh. After many picnics in parks all around Raleigh, and hardly seeing anyone picnicking in them, I decided I wanted to share this almost-forgotten way of spending time together. And so, Southern Picnics was born.
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